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The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in modern history. The Creole Affair is just as importantly a story of diplomacy: of two extraordinary non-professional diplomats who cleverly resolved the tensions arising from this historic slave uprising that, had it been allowed to escalate, had the potential for catastrophe.

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"In this assiduously researched and tightly argued volume, Baptist gives us what is by far the finest account of the deep interplay of the slave trade (especially within the nation's borders) and the development of the U.S. economy."-Bloomberg View, Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2014

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Mary Prince was a freed slave from Bermuda who achieved notoriety when she published her autobiography at a time when abolition debates were raging. This book details the ill-treatment she received by her various owners and her escape to England where she sought refuge with Christian missionaries.

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The extraordinary story of John Kirk, the Scottish botanist who single-handedly ended the East African slave trade.

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The human drama of the slave trade told from a new perspective, from the decks of the slave ship

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The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian

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James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807.

John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition.

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An autobiography that presents nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

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"Biography of an American bondman by his daughter was first published in 1855."--Title page verso.

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From the mid-fifteenth century to the close of the nineteenth, it is estimated that more than 12 million people from Africa were forced onto slave ships and transported to the Americas; at least 11 million survived the journey. Even after Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807, and the U.S. followed suit in 1808, m

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A collection of twenty slave narratives arranged chronologically in two volumes. The narratives in this volume include tales of Africa, pirate ships, wild animals, and witches; a slave who had ten owners, and another who led a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites; and more.

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A collection of essays on American abolitionism. This book draws on a body of research in literature, art history, film, law, women's studies, and other disciplines. It incorporates thinking on such topics as the role of early black newspapers, anti-slavery poetry, and abolitionists in film.

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Draws on a body of research in literature, art history, film, law, women's studies, and other disciplines. This book incorporates thinking on topics such as the role of early black newspapers, anti-slavery poetry, and abolitionists in film. It is a collection of original essays on American abolitionism to appear in a generation.

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A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors.

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A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors.